# Colonel Marchbanks — Lord Peter Views the Body character guide

> Colonel Marchbanks in Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the redoubtable Colonel Marchbanks, Colonel

**First appearance:** 0005-the-undignified-melodrama-of-the-bone-of-contention

## Who they are

A redoubtable colonel in the bone of contention.

## In the story

### [The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/chapters/the-unprincipled-affair-of-the-practical-joker)

Plays cards with Lord Peter and disapproves of Melville.

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